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*Idiot Bernie Sanders Supporters Hope for Venezuela Style Food
Lines in US*
Socialism in Venezuela has led to massive shortages of food,
toilet paper, diapers and medicine
*Socialism:*Like a skyscraper crane about to topple in high
winds, Venezuela is teetering on the brink of a horrific economic
collapse. It was brought on by one thing: socialism, taken to the
hilt. Yet incredibly, neither Bernie Sanders nor his voters make
this connection. It's worrisome that so many Americans see
socialism in a favorable light these days. A May 2015 YouGov poll
showed that socialism was viewed favored favorably by 43% of
Democrats, while a June 2015 Gallup poll showed that 47% of
Americans would vote for a socialist.
It points to a collective loss of memory. After all, it's been
decades since the fact that the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet
empire collapsed. As chess champion Garry Kasparov has noted in
"Winter Is Coming," there have been no truth commissions or
victory parades to institutionalize the monstrous idea's
discreditation and demise. In fact, the idea seems to be
resurging in the U.S. Democratic Party, even with examples of its
failures continuing, the latest example being Venezuela. That
reality of socialism and its horrific results is mocked by
Sanders himself, who denies it has anything to do with his own
ideas. "I myself don’t use the word socialism,” he told a
University of Vermont student publication in 1976 “because people
have been brainwashed into thinking socialism automatically means
slave-labor camps, dictatorship and lack of freedom of speech.”
Brainwashed? The very word comes from socialist indoctrination
practices. Sanders' flip dismissal of those realities reminds us
of a quote from Nobel Prize winner and author of "The Gulag
Archipelago" Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: "Or do they refuse to see?"
Yes, Sanders and his followers refuse. Even the absence of
slave-labor camps, in say, socialist Venezuela, doesn't get
Sanders off the hook. Right now Venezuelans are at the logical
conclusion of 18 years of democratic socialism, the kind Sanders
has praised in the past, and even benefited from, as he accepted
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez's oil largesse -- stolen from
Venezuela's people -- for Vermont. Today Venezuela, with the
world's largest oil reserves is, believe it or not,/importing/
oil. It's a perfect illustration of Nobel-winning economist
Milton Friedman's well known saying that if the Sahara took up
socialism, there would soon be a shortage of sand.
Socialism has also led to massive shortages of food, toilet
paper, diapers and medicine, among many other things, all the
result of state planning and currency controls and rampant
inflation. After 18 years of socialist spending, inflation has
hit 720%, the IMF says. And don't forget that Venezuela also has
the world's highest crime rate, with Caracas rated the world's
most dangerous city by the Citizens' Council for Public Security
and Criminal Justice
<http://www.seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/biblioteca/prensa/summary/5-prensa/199-the-50-most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2014>.
Socialist Venezuela is on the verge of a massive Argentina-sized
sovereign debt default, with $10 billion in debt payments due
this year, and only $8 billion left to buy imports such as food,
according to an appalling analysis in the Financial Times by
Ricardo Hausmann.
Meanwhile, Venezuela ranks No. 1 in the world on economist Steve
Hanke's Cato Institute "Misery Index" which is his measure of
each nations' combined inflation, unemployment and interest
rates. Friday, Reuters reported that Venezuela was were
desperately trying to swap out their gold reserves with German
banks to survive a little longer.
No surprise, investment banks say they're looking at an 80%
chance of a default. Blogger Miguel Octavio of The Devil's
Excrement reported this week that the Caracas airport was full of
weeping families sending their young people into exile abroad.
That's the part of socialism Bernie Sanders doesn't want to talk
about. It's the same wherever it's tried. Voters fall for it over
and over, and all it brings is failure. Sanders is only
continuing the con. When is he going to be called on it?
Poor pants. Do you stay awake at night clutching your special
blanket and teddy bear, eyes staring into the darkness in fear as
you resist the temptation to suck your thumb as you ponder the
future of your great country under the leadership of that upstart
Jewish socialist Bernie Sanders? I am sorry for this, I wish I
could comfort you and make you feel better, more secure. But,
alas, I can not. But, if it is any solace, there is always Cruz
or Trump to uphold the religious and moral backbone of the
country you call "home". And while you lie there with that
comforting thought, I will be staring wide-eyed with trepidation
on this side of the border.
